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Peggy wrote: "Yay! Second viewing is confirmed for Monday!I'll stop spamming this thread now :)"
Woohoo Peggy! :D
Stephanie wrote: " All's fair in house hunting :-)"A truer word has never been said. Love the place, Peggy. Crossing fingers and toes for you. And good work for being so productive today!
We might be moving...again...It wouldn't be for a few months but now I'm not sure if I should keep applying for jobs here as we would be moving to northern Virginia. Hubby may be up for a job with his company but he could also be up for another job here as well. Good thing I haven't found anymore jobs to apply to lately anyways :)
I wouldn't mind moving again...I like living in bigger cities anyways :)
Go me! Accounts and Tax Return done! Emails sent. Clothes put away. Sorted stuff to go to charity shop. Descaled water jug. Basic tidy up. Ordered some paint. Removed spiders from boat. Feeling productive! Now it's time for me to have some lunch before I do some more useful things. I'm pleased mainly about the tax return as now I don't have to think about it until next year.
Wow Sarah, productive indeed! Maybe you could come over here for a bit? ;-)
Beautiful house, Peggy! Good luck! :DYes, I agree with Stephanie. I think with house hunting you have to be quick and ruthless! ;)
lol. I neglected to say that on my last day off I did nothing, not even the washing up! I need to be on one and then I get lots done but otherwise I generally procrastinate and come up with an excuse for not doing things.
Sarah, I think the eradication of spiders is the most important thing you accomplished...;-}
Love the vid, Travis! Good luck on the house, Peggy! It is beautiful. I really hope it works out for you!
Wow, Sarah, I wish I could manage to get half that much done on my days off. This past Sunday I was planning to be super productive and get the house spotless (or at least less spotty lol), but I ended up spending most of the day curled up in the recliner reading. It was national book lovers' day, so I thought it was an appropriate way to spend the day! :D
This past Sunday I was planning to be super productive and get the house spotless (or at least less spotty lol), but I ended up spending most of the day curled up in the recliner reading. It was national book lovers' day, so I thought it was an appropriate way to spend the day! :D"That sounds like the BEST way to spend a Sunday :-)
I have 2 more hours of Excel studying/learning...tomorrow begins Powerpoint!!
@Peggy - good luck on the house. It's really nice. I love the back yard.@Sarah - come visit me now. I can put your productivity to work.
@Travis - lol! Life in the fast lane.
@Stephanie - enjoy the studying.
@Stephanie - enjoy the studying.Thanks :-) I am officially done with with Excel!! My brain is numb so no more schoolwork for me tonight!
@ KimeyDiann: "This past Sunday I was planning to be super productive and get the house spotless (or at least less spotty lol), but I ended up spending most of the day curled up in the recliner reading..."I agree with Stephanie! An ideal Sunday! Hoping to engage in some good lounge chair surfing myself during this weekend's 24 hour toppler :)
Glad you took some time for relaxing, KimeyDiann. That audit stuff preparation is some stressful stuff. I think it's very normal to feel more emotionally tapped out during such a time.
Lovely house, Peggy. Good luck. Hope you guys get it. Good for you to be proactive. When you really want something, go for it!
Stephanie, another move... Sigh... You're going to be a pro at this soon, lol. I moved a bunch in my twenty somethings. Not so difficult then as i didn't have much furniture or belongings.
Such a hassle now. My husband is a big collector of audio stuff. He has multiple sets of massive speakers and tons of other equipment. And of course walls and walls of recordings of assorted types. The old vinyl LPs take up the most space. Carrying those thoings upstairs at our current house when we moved 4 years ago really wore us out.
Oh, Stephanie, i was thinking how i did temp work for a stretch of about 5 months once when i wanted to earn some money but didn't want to commit to a permanent position then because of wanting flexibility to visit my mother who i was helping move and transition to assisted living. Any way, that really worked well for me then, and you maybe something like that would be good for you at this time? So just thought I'd mention it in case it might be helpful.
I turned in all my paperwork for the new job today. I found out they moved up my start dated a week earlier. I had planned my last day at my current job to give me a couple weeks off in between. That is no longer the case. Oh well, I am excited though.
It's good and bad at the same time, Amanda. But I'm sure you are very excited anyways. :)
@Travis, the video was very funny. Thanks for sharing!@Peggy, the house is beautiful! I hope you are luckier this time!
@Stephanie, I'm sure you are an expert in moving by now. You should convert this experience and know-how in an income!
We are back from our vacations. I should feel rested, but I'm just exhausted. A question for the bloggers here. I have been thinking for a while (more than a year maybe?) in doing a blog focused in reviews of children books, from picture books to middle schoolers books. What do you recommend to use? Google's blogger? WordPress? I'm absolutely illiterate in this, so any tip counts.
I finally opened a NetGalley account yesterday and got my first children book to read and review, Ghostly Thief of Time: An EMU Club Adventure. I plan to read it with my 10 years old son when we finish Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway (which is being great BTW). He says he doesn't like to read, and says reading 30 minutes daily is a penitence. So we are trying a shared read aloud time, and it's working. We read one chapter each. I'm surprised of hearing him repeating expressions from the books we read when playing. Ex: "Keep your eyes peeled". :)
My husband is by far the better mover over me :) I tend to throw things out because I don't want to have to move...hence why we don't have a lot of furniture anymore...oops :)
@Sandra - Your book blog sounds great and I added the Masked Man book to my TBR. I know nothing about blogging or sites. Sorry. Love how you are getting your son to read and like it better. It is fun to hear them use things that they read too! @Peggy - Lovely house. Fingers crossed for you.
@Stephanie - I haven't moved in 37 years.
@Travis - LOL - can't imagine!
@Lisa - cloudy here too - no shooting stars
@Sarah - way to get things done. I am a terrible procrastinator. Any excuse to read and I am there.
Great idea about the blog Sandra! I have no tips either though.
Sounds great Sandra! I use the blogger platform (which I think is Google owned now) for my blog. I've not used wordpress so I have no idea on that one but I've heard good stuff about it. I like blogger though - pretty easy to use.Well I'm not feeling so motivated today. Plus it's raining outside so I think I'll take it a bit easier today. I want to get my coursework done for a course which I did 3 years ago. There was no formal deadline for it and because I wouldn't get the certificate for it anyway until I finished paying it off (June this year) then I kept on putting it off. Now I'm all paid up, I want to get it handed in and get my certificate then it's all done and dusted.
This website http://www.fanshoesuk.com/ popped up in my newsfeed on facebook just now. They are baseball boots which have images from films/bands/tv shows on them. There are some cool ones on there. You can also make your own ones.
Stephanie, I missed the post about you moving. When are you moving? You guys just settled in! Peggy, any news on the house?
Tasha wrote: "Stephanie, I missed the post about you moving. When are you moving? You guys just settled in! We won't know if we are for sure for another couple of months :)
No news. Second viewing is still on for Monday and we're using the weekend to make a list of all the things we need to ask and thinking about, if we still like it on Monday, what sort of offer to bring out.
That's exciting, Peggy! Yes, blogger is google's now. I heard that is easier to use than wordpress too, but wordpress has more options for customization. Since I don't now nothing about blogging, the easiest the best, I guess. Thanks for the tip, Sarah.
Stephanie wrote: "Tasha wrote: "Stephanie, I missed the post about you moving. When are you moving? You guys just settled in! We won't know if we are for sure for another couple of months :)"
got it. :)
Peggy, good luck on the househunting, it is a stressful and exciting time!!! Stephanie, do you want to move again?My younger kids went back to school yesterday, this was a very short summer, my oldest has another month until he's off to college :-) I think I'm ready!
Berit wrote: "Peggy, good luck on the househunting, it is a stressful and exciting time!!! Stephanie, do you want to move again?My younger kids went back to school yesterday, this was a very short summer, my ol..."
I wouldn't mind moving again..especially if we move to a bigger city. After we lived in Omaha and then back in Spokane and now in Charlottesville, I miss living in a big city like Omaha :)
Steph!Just keep moving, moving, moving! :( would it be a promotion for Jamey or just something else he'd rather do? Where in VA?
How was excel? I work most my day in it, just trained by Google though haha
Melissa wrote: "Steph!Just keep moving, moving, moving! :( would it be a promotion for Jamey or just something else he'd rather do? Where in VA?
How was excel? I work most my day in it, just trained by Google t..."
Hi Melissa!!!!!
It would be a promotion of sorts for him :) we would have to move to Northern VA..maybe Woodbridge, Vienna, Manassas...closer to DC anyways :)
Excel was dreadful lol! Do you use PivotTables and PuvitCharts? I just don't get them, lol!
I'm on to PowerPoint now..I wonder if I will remember any of it from high school :)
I've never heard of those tables haha so far!I work a lot with vlookups, lots of data and spreadsheets and numbers and margins...I can't believe all the things Excel can do and I know I know just a tiny bit of what it is capable of...
Well, good luck to you guys, sounds like you're up for the change and to get a promotion (of sorts) I think sounds promising for your future! :) Probably lots of dog parks although where you're at now sure seems dog friendly!
I just learned about vhookups yesterday!! As well as hlookups (but don't ask me to tell you what they are because I don't remember unless I look at my notes ;) )Yes, where we are now is very dog friendly. It will be interesting if we do move :) but we could also be staying here.
I can't wait though to see you and the rest of the gang in just a few months :) I'm still not sure what the plans are though! I just know we fly to Spokane in just under 2 months:) it will be the longest I have been away from Blake :(
Hmm...have to figure out where to go where I can take Blake for 4-6 hours (weather to be determined) on Tuesday! We are still having house centipede problems so the pest control people are going to come and inject some kind of chemical into the baseboards. We have to be out of the apartment for at least 4-6 hours. Hopefully the weather cooperates so I can take Blake to the park and read maybe :)
What an apt time to be discussing excel! I normally love working in excel, but today it has made me want to do something violent to my computer! The accounting software I use at work has a feature that allows you to export reports to excel. This can be a great feature, but sometimes it is a bane. I have to give the auditors that are coming a specific report that looks like a job cost report but only includes the costs I billed for (bc they don't need to see the costs I didn't bill for). The problem is, this report isn't balancing to what I actually billed because of the way some of the cost was put into our system.
I have exported this report so I can input the missing data, but the way the system exports it, there are all of these merged cells and hidden rows. All of that has to be unmerged and the rows unhidden, which would normally take four mouse clicks and done. I guess because of the massive size of this report (over 800 pages and 30,000 rows), fixing it the normal way makes excel freeze. Which means I have to shut it down and restart. I tried doing half of the document: freezes. A quarter: freezes. I ended up having to do it in 200-800 row increments. That worked most of the time, but occasionally it would mess up again and because I was only saving every 5 minutes or so, I would have to redo a bunch again. After the third or fourth time this happened, I started saving after every single mouse click.
That finally worked and now I have over 2000 pages of data ready to balance to another spreadsheet I created that shows actual billed labor. I just reopened this spreadsheet and realized that even though I distinctly remember saving my work, over half of the data I entered is gone!!!! Apparently when excel froze earlier this morning, it somehow lost the couple of hours worth of work I had put into the second spreadsheet as well.
I don't know if I want to scream or cry. Instead of either, I ate a chocolate chip cookie and came to GR to relax my brain for a few minutes.
And once again, I'm sorry for the super long post! Venting helps and since Stephanie was talking about her excel class, I thought I'd share my nightmare day. :/
Oh, btw Stephanie, I learned Pivot Tables and Charts in some high school and college computer courses, but I have never had to use either outside of classes. What are "vlookups" and "hlookups?" That terminology isn't ringing a bell in my half-brain-dead state right now. LOL.
Oh no, KimeyDiann! I hope Excel gets better! I'm learning more and more about it but whether or not it is sticking in my brain is another story ;)The poor pup next door is whining! So so sad...it started doing that yesterday when the neighbors left :( I think it is new to being home alone for a bit:( I can hear it through our door and it breaks my heart..I wish Blake liked other dogs (he only likes his gf back in Spokane). Is offer to watch it while they were gone.
Vlookup per Google is: VLOOKUP retrieves information from a database/list based on a supplied instance of the unique identifier.Hlookup per Google is: Excel HLOOKUP function can be used when you are dealing with huge datasheet and need to look up the values of the specific record. HLOOKUP stands for Horizontal lookup, used to find specific data from the datasheet. Unlike VLOOKUP function, it looks for the values horizontally which enables the user to extract a complete record. This post elaborates how & where you can use HLOOKUP function.
Not that I really understand any of that yet..
@KimeyDiann, Sometimes, when we really need things to work, they just won't. It's annoying. I hope everything gets better soon!
Okay, I admit, I have never heard of (that I recall) nor used either of those functions. "Find" works perfect when I'm searching for something in a spreadsheet. LOL.Thanks, Sandra. I'm calling it a day now... but packing up my computer so I can work from home over the weekend. Boo. :(
I love the "Find" button! And the "help" button! Hope you are able to get some relaxing in this weekend, KimeyDiann!
I love V and H lookups because sometimes you don't need an entire record and just finding how many times a specific piece of data appears is all you want.KimeyDiann, I also export mass amounts of data to excel from our directory and financial records. Sometimes it's such a dump because there are only so many ways to refine your parameters. I feel your pain! Even though I've never done a data dump even close to the size you are describing.
That made my head spin. I'd want to hurt my computer too.
ARGH Kimey! I had similar excel issues yesterday, but not even half that bad. Hope you have a relaxing weekend to get over that!I use PivotTables all the time now, after not knowing about them at the beginning of the year. I needed to know how to use them for a job interview, so I just googled some YouTube videos. Recommend this Stephanie if you're a bit like me and need to see how it's done.
They are so bloody useful now I know how to use them. I'm using them to analyse the entire University's enrolments (so 20 000 students and up to 8 courses a year each), so a normal sheet would be ridiculous.
I'm going to be checking them out on YouTube for sure!! Thanks, Rusalka! I'm definitely a visual learner!
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